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The Renters Take Providence

The mayoral race in Rhode Island’s capital has become a proxy for a broader contest between tenants and landlords.

October 23, 2026

‘Natives of the Country’

By taking up the cause of Lebanon’s murdered Jewish leaders, Israel threatens to detach them from their history and absorb them into its own.

October 22, 2026

Fintan O’Toole

Back to the Future

Can Andy Burhnam’s vision of economic recovery in the hinterlands keep the UK together?

October 23, 2026

Adam Hochschild

Out from Underground

Fifty years after the last Weather Underground bomb exploded, former members and their children reassess the costs of the group’s violent struggle.

November 5, 2026 issue

Kathryn Hughes

Rebel Rebel

George Sand’s scandalous life, including a decade-long affair with Chopin, has obscured the influence of her many novels.

November 5, 2026 issue

Guitarricadelafuente and Miguel Bernardeau in La Bola Negra

Guitarricadelafuente and Miguel Bernardeau in Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra, 2026

“The narrative deliberately, it seems, lacks weight and depth. It is extravagant, a kind of romp. It is hardly what we expect in a film about the fascist side in the Spanish Civil War. It says more, perhaps, about the period in which it was made than it does about the past. ”

— Colm Tóibín: Making Light of a Dark Past

November 5, 2026

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Sue Halpern

The Plot to Delete Democracy

In The Nerd Reich Gil Durán shows how Silicon Valley billionaires have pushed a fringe ideology—what is popularly called techno-fascism but is closer in aspiration to straight-up totalitarianism—into the affairs of state.

November 5, 2026 issue

Colin Thubron

Burning Bright, for Now

The Amur tiger and the jaguar are among the most elusive big cats in the world. Biologists have spent years tracking them down to save them.

November 5, 2026 issue

Daisy Hildyard

Privatized Stress

Saul Leslie’s A Working Title I Want to Change, a satire about the British supermarket chain Tesco, joins a spate of recent novels about people trying to survive the gig economy.

November 5, 2026 issue

Bill McKibben

The Sheer Size of It All

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs chronicle the gigantic scale of the scarred landscapes created by twentieth-century extractive industries.

November 5, 2026 issue

Michael Kazin

Whither American Socialism?

Since the time of Eugene V. Debs, socialists have struggled to persuade Americans that they could create a more just society.

November 5, 2026 issue

Susan Tallman

Vermeer’s Vanishing Act

Why is it that so many smart, inquisitive writers, smitten by the elusiveness of Vermeer’s pictures, should work so hard to wrestle that elusiveness into submission?

November 5, 2026 issue

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Unfinished Business

Claire-Louise Bennett’s novels have found a new language to evoke the often circular, abstracted nature of human consciousness.

November 5, 2026 issue

Nicolas Niarchos

Yemen: The Endless Siege

The “Yemen Model” of American foreign policy has proved a catastrophic failure, leaving brutal proxies better armed and ordinary Yemenis less safe.

November 5, 2026 issue

Jeffrey Toobin

Mapping Mississippi White

Bennie Thompson’s trailblazing career came after the success of the Voting Rights Act and could end with its fall.

November 5, 2026 issue

Julian Gewirtz

The Dream of AI Primacy

The US drive to win the AI race against China now feeds a fantasy of permanent American dominance in global affairs.

November 5, 2026 issue

Adam Thirlwell

Indefensible Delights

Wallace Shawn’s plays expose the ways in which civilized society is maintained by a violence that is everywhere denied.

November 5, 2026 issue

James Gleick

Talk to It

This is the chatbots’ original sin: they are programmed to deceive us.

November 5, 2026 issue

New Poems

Shane McCrae

March 13, 2020

November 5, 2026 issue

Claire DeVoogd

Work Poem

November 5, 2026 issue

David Plante

Poem

November 5, 2026 issue

At the Galleries

Will Heinrich

Turning Around the Easel

The painter Emily Mae Smith hands over her brush to a character borrowed from pop culture—a gesture with symbolic depth.

November 5, 2026 issue

Joel Smith

A City All His Own

In his view camera pictures of New York in the late 1970s, Baldwin Lee reinvented the photographic tradition of the city as empty stage.

November 5, 2026 issue

Nicole Rudick

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Ree

The artists Rosemary Mayer and Ree Morton shared an affinity for bringing fabrics, flowers, and language into work that linked personal history to public display.

October 22, 2026 issue

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Alice Driver

The Return of Child Labor

The rollback of child labor protections in Arkansas over the past several years is part of an increasingly politicized campaign underway across the country.

October 14, 2026

Ian Johnson

Our 1989

In a new stage production, a chorus of speakers from around the world shared accounts of their own lives and hopes the year the Berlin Wall came down.

October 11, 2026

Sophie Pinkham

Between Earth and Sky

The great Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko at once played the Soviet game and dealt frankly with human suffering and survival.

October 10, 2026

Namwali Serpell

Ming Smith’s Ming Smiths

The artist’s self-portraits seem to say: I am because of us.

October 7, 2026

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Wexford Touch

The Wexford Festival Opera, now in its seventy-fifth year, has always given enthusiasts and operaphiliacs a particularly warm welcome.

October 6, 2026

Kovie Biakolo

A Delicate Repair

The Benin Bronzes have finally started to come home—but home has proved to be a fraught idea.

October 4, 2026

a conversation with Karan Mahajan and Corey Robin

The Private Life of Power

Can novels reveal the inner lives of far-right leaders and the ordinary people who vote for them?

October 2, 2026

Mark Lilla

From Fear Set Free

For Judith Shklar, liberalism was the political art of putting first things first.

September 29, 2026

Erika Balsom

Sand Castles

The revival of Paula Delsol’s La Dérive raises the question of how a film so accomplished and so proximate to the French New Wave could remain so little known for so long.

September 23, 2026

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Elaine Blair, in conversation with Jarrett Earnest

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October 21, 2026

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Bernie Sanders’s Utopia Lab

Season 1, Episode 2 of Endgame with Fintan O’Toole

October 20, 2026

Leslie Fiedler, read by Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner Reads from Love and Death in the American Novel

Season 2, Episode 4 of Private Life

October 14, 2026

Annette Gordon-Reed, in conversation with Fintan O’Toole

Jefferson, Independence, and Slavery

Season 1, Episode 1 of Endgame with Fintan O’Toole

October 13, 2026

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Brief Encounters

Lola Seaton, interviewed by Lauren Kane

Switching On

“The art of receiving art, like the art of making it, seems deeply related to the need to discover what we share.”

October 17, 2026

Matthew Aucoin, interviewed by Daniel Drake

The Composer

“It makes all the difference in the world whether the people performing the music love and believe in it.”

October 10, 2026

Lena Beug and Jason Logan, interviewed by Leanne Shapton

A Plum Assignment

“The world has enough jockeying for attention, and not enough of whatever you might call this project.”

September 26, 2026

Christopher Alessandrini, interviewed by Nandini Krishnan

‘A Certain Grain of Stupidity’

“My best work comes when the intellect—which might have served as some kind of scaffold—is breached somehow and falls away.”

September 19, 2026

Free from the Archives

Prudence Crowther: A Message from Your Candidate

“And let’s not forget what we’re running against. Does anyone else care that the Chucklehead-in-Chief has turned to TaskRabbit to conduct foreign policy? For crying out loud!”

Fascist Dorks

Mark O’Connell

Space Oddity

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

July 23, 2026 issue

Anne Diebel

The Dungeon Master

Peter Thiel is full of contradictions—a libertarian who founded a company that aids government surveillance, a critic of tech who supports Facebook’s mission for world domination, and a defender of free speech who helped to kill a media outlet.

February 10, 2022 issue

Suzanne Schneider

From the Cesspool to the Mainstream

The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.

October 23, 2025 issue

Ben Tarnoff

Venture-Backed Trumpism

Why have right-wing ideas found such an eager audience among tech elites during Biden’s presidency?

September 19, 2024 issue

Having a Poem with You

Langdon Hammer

Alert to Reality

The first biography of James Schuyler suggests that his tendency to withdraw was both a harbinger of his disabling mood disorder and the wellspring of his shimmering poetry.

November 20, 2025 issue

Lucy Sante

John Ashbery (1927–2017)

He was lionized, imitated, studied, analyzed, enshrined, revered.

October 12, 2017 issue

Dan Chiasson

Crossing the Invisible Line

The astonishing work of poet Eileen Myles set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match.

March 24, 2016 issue

Geoffrey O’Brien

The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street

“One has to go back to fairly remote periods—ancient Rome, eighteenth-century London—to find poetry as meticulous in its gossip and as minute in its urban observation as Frank O’Hara’s.”

December 2, 1993 issue

On Iran

Christopher de Bellaigue

Iran’s New Winter

The US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.

May 28, 2026 issue

Anonymous

From the Rooftops of Tehran

We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

April 23, 2026 issue

Orly Noy

Longing for My Tehran

On the Israeli news, I watch as the country whose citizenship I hold devastates the one where I was born.

March 14, 2026

Neve Gordon

The Gaza Doctrine

Over the course of two years, Israeli forces systematically destroyed the Gaza Strip’s health system. Their attacks in Iran and Lebanon follow a disturbingly similar pattern.

March 22, 2026

On Israel and Gaza

Sophia Goodfriend

Target Practice

Artificial intelligence systems—now an integral part of the Israeli war machine—began as tools developed to surveil every aspect of Palestinian life.

July 23, 2026

Helen Epstein

Gaza’s Deadly Soil

Amid tight Israeli restrictions, new remote research is starting to make visible the scale of toxic fallout across the Gaza Strip.

July 22, 2026

Mary Turfah

Safety Is When There’s No One Dying

Israel’s assault on Palestine and Lebanon has reconfigured how children understand the world.

June 24, 2026

Adania Shibli

Dead Lands

Rather than letting ourselves tire of repeated stories, how might we allow them to inform us about something we couldn’t grasp otherwise?

June 17, 2026

Piper French

To Break the Siege

By sailing to Gaza, activists in the flotilla movement have long tried to pressure their own governments to honor international law.

May 31, 2026

Neve Gordon

The Gaza Doctrine

Over the course of two years, Israeli forces systematically destroyed the Gaza Strip’s health system. Their attacks in Iran and Lebanon follow a disturbingly similar pattern.

March 22, 2026